Lesson Help
by Susan Wild
 

We first took slides of the "unprepared" sister on Sunday morning.  We had pictures of the kids waking the sleepy mom up, Mom reaching out of the shower curtain for the towel that wasn't there, kids jumping on the couch with the cushions thrown off, eating cereal out of the box (with piles of spilled cereal on the floor), trying to find clean clothes in the dryer, putting miss-matched socks on a child, the tired overwhelmed Mom finding disaster after disaster around the very messy house - that part was easy!  We played the William Tell Overture while those slides were shown.  Then we had slides of the very organized Mom (also me - but pure fiction) who gets up to the alarm clock, has time for prayer and scripture study before waking her darling children in their clean rooms with their Sunday clothes all laid out.  Fixing some Jell-O and putting dinner in the crock pot, sitting down to a lovely breakfast with the table beautifully set, the older children helping the younger ones get ready, arriving at church 15 minutes early etc.  We played Cannon in D to these slides.  It was great fun.  I actually found the slides and used them last year for a sharing time for Primary and one of the fun things was that lots of the kids had never seen a slide projector or screen before and they thought that was pretty cool.  Something like this could set the stage for sharing some great ideas the fictional sister had.